Kamala Harris to travel to Monterey Park in wake of mass shooting

A woman who identified herself as Shally, and said her dance partner died in Saturday’s shooting at Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park, pays her respects at a makeshift memorial outside the dance hall on Tuesday. Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Monterey Park on Wednesday to honor the victims of one of the three mass shootings that have left her home state reeling this week. It’s unclear whether Harris or President Biden will travel to Half Moon Bay this week, but the president will speak on the string of shootings “in the upcoming days,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Tuesday. The series of mass shootings prompted renewed talk of gun control on Capitol Hill, where Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Rep. David N. Cicilline introduced a federal assault weapons ban on Monday that would raise the minimum purchase age for assault weapons to 21. The measure — the first major gun safety bill to pass Congress in 30 years — strengthened background checks for gun buyers between the ages of 18 and 21, expanded an existing law preventing domestic abusers from purchasing a gun and helped states implement “red flag” laws to enable authorities to remove weapons from people determined to be a threat to themselves or others.